Even though this year seems to have been a banner winter for Snowy Owl southward dispersal, I have not recently been out to the fields and beaches to look for them. This is a picture from some years ago, somewhere in New Jersey.
This young bird (note the heavy barring) actually flew toward me to perch on this broken tree; that said, this is a cropped photo taken at considerable distance with 800mm worth of optic. There was no one else around, unless you count the small flock of Dunlin and Grey Plovers on the surf line behind me—probably what the Snowy had come to look at! I withdrew, leaving the owl and the shorebirds to work things out.